“What Kind of Crazy is This?”

Abstract

The article aims to discuss the social exclusion as an effect of the white eurocentric patriarchal colonial project, as well as its eurocentric, patriarchal colonial project, as well as its developments in the field of mental health. We asked ourselves what psychology's entanglement is in this scenario since we propose to engage in a critical discussion with embodied and situated writing. Having a handmade construction of research as a methodological proposition  (Quadros, 2015), sewing together patches of history that form this weaving in the scenario of exclusions and prejudices still present in the field studied. Thus, by following the historical narrative as a thread to organize this writing, as well as dialogues with decolonial thinkers, we seek to discuss the impacts of this colonial, hygienist, and eugenicist project on the field of mental health and its multiple implications for the social markers of difference. Lastly, at a time when public policies in this segment are regressing, it seems crucial to recover this trajectory, both to contextualize our mental health practices as well as to highlight the inequalities created by an exclusionist project.